Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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We can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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